Curtain-fixture



(No Model.)

T. MCGUIRE.

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UNITED drarns PATENT @rrrcn.

THOMAS MCGUIRE, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

:SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,674, dated November 22, 1887.

Application tiled June 20, 188?.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS MoGUIRn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Our min-Fixtures, of which the following is a speci fication. i

This invention relates to an improved bracket for supporting spring curtain-rollers. In this description of rollers one end is provided with a Hat or square supporting-lug which does not revolve in the bracket, while the other end is provided with ajournal which does revolve.

The objectof the invention is to provide a bracket which will not only be capable of sup porting either end of the said rollers, but will also be adapted to take any position on the window-frame-top, bottom, or side-and in either position hold the curtainroller equally well.

The invention is illustrated in the moon panying drawings, in which Figures 1, 2, and 3 are side, edge, and end views, respectively, of the bracket. Figs. 4: and 5 each show two views of the opposite ends of a spring curtain-roller. Fig. 6 shows a bracket in the position it would have at the front side ofa window-frame supporting one end of a roller. Figs. 7 and 8 show brackets in the position they would have at the top and bottom, respectively, ofa window-frame. Fig. 9 shows a bracket in which the lug-bearing is double, one crossing the other, and both being diagonal or inclined.

The letter A designates the body of the bracket; 1), an eye or round-hole bearing for the journal fof the roller; 7). an elongated closed inclined slot, which serves as a bearing for the lugf of the roller; 0, the base of the body, which rests against the window-frame; and c, a screw secured to the bracket on a line midway between the said round bearing and closed-slot bearing. This position of the screw enables it to serve for attaching the bracket to the window-frame, and also as a pivot whereby the bracket may be turned to bring uppermost either bearing, (2 or Z), that may be desired. It will be seen, also, that a pair of brackets for one curtain consists of two brackets which are exactly alike. This feature is the subject of Letters Patent of thcUnit-ed States No. 343,483, dated J une 8, 1886, and mypresent invention Serial No. 241,832. (No model.)

of the inclined lug-slot or double crossed slot is an improvement thereon.

The curtain-roller E is hollow, and has a spring, 9, and at one end has a journal, f, which is rigid with respectto the roller, and at the other end has aflatlug, f, which is connccted with thespring g, and is not rigid on the roller, but turns free. The flat lugf has a base provided with two notches, h, and the end ofthe roller has one or two pawls, i, which, when engaged with said notches, will prevent the roller from turning. This spring-roller is a device well known as the Hartshorne Roller, and is described in several United States Patents. The bracket usuallyeinployed with this roller has a slot open at one side for the lngf, which, when the bracket is in position on the window-frame, is vertical. This vertical position of theslot serves the purpose of holding the lugf and notches kin the most favorable position to engage with the pawls 2", which revolve around them; butthereare two objections to the said usually-employed bracket, to wit: first, both a right and a left hand bracket is necessary, and, second, the said bracket is suited for only one location or position on the window-fra1nethat is to say, one of these old brackets which will serve for the front side of the window-frame, like the position shown in Fig. 6. cannot be used at the top and bottom if placed in the position shown in Figs. 7 and 8, res ectively.

I have found t at the roller-lug f and notches h, attached to it, if inclined, will he in good position for the engagement therewith of the pawls I have therefore provided the bracket with a lug-slot, b, which is inclined with respect to the base 0. I have also here shown a bracket (see Fig. 9) with a closed double-inclined slot, '0 one slot crossing the other. Thus the lug f may take position in either one, and incline one way or the other, as preferred. By this double lug-slot, crossed, the bracket may be attached to the windowframe at the front side, top, or bottom.

My improved bracket with the inclined lugslot or the double slot, crossed, is free of the objections existing in the usually-employed bracket, and may be placed in any position on the window-frame.

When the improved bracket is on the window-frame, the closed slot Z) for the roller-lug f will have an inclined positiongvhether the round hole and the other aclosed angular slot, bracket be attached at the front side in the the said bearings being in a line parallel with position shown in Fig. 6, or at the top in the the base, whereby the curtain-roller may be 15 position shown in Fig. 7, or at the bottom in changed end for end and its angular lug sup- 5 the position shown in Fig. 8. ported at either side of the window-casing, 21 Having described myinvention, I claim and and for the purpose set forth. desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United In testimony whereof I affix my signature in Statesthe presence of two witnesses.

A bracket for the support of spring ourtain- THOMAS MCGUIRE. 1o rollers, having a base to rest against the win- Witnesses:

dow-franie and a body part provided with two I JOHN E. MORRIS,

bearings, one having the shape of an eye or JNo. T. MADDOX. 

